Royals Owner David Glass yesterday said that the team is "'absolutely' keeping GM Dayton Moore, a rising star who is reportedly a potential target" of the Braves, the team with which Moore "grew up in the game," according to Jon Heyman of CBSSPORTS.com. Following the Royals clinching their first World Series berth since '85 with an ALCS sweep of the Orioles, Glass said, "Absolutely, he's staying." Heyman notes Moore and Braves Assistant GM John Coppolella "are seen as the most likely GM candidates" for the Braves if interim GM John Hart, who also works as an analyst for MLB Network, "decides he'd rather move back into a consulting role for the team." Moore "spent his whole baseball career with the Braves" before joining the Royals in '06. He has since "been extended twice, and his current contract runs" through '16. Moore "came up as a scout, and he hasn't hardly been a darling of the sabermetric crowd -- though KC is still seen as scout heavy, it does have a sabermetric department." Glass: "He's as good as it gets as far as a general manager" (CBSSPORTS.com, 10/15).
WHAT THE HART WANTS: In Atlanta, David O'Brien reports Braves President John Schuerholz refuted a report claiming Hart "has turned down the Braves’ offer" to take the GM job full-time. Schuerholz in an e-mail wrote, "At best the article was not accurate with either the facts or the assumptions" (ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, 10/16). In the original report, YAHOO SPORTS' Jeff Passan cited sources as saying that Hart "turned down the offer" to be the Braves' GM, "prompting the team to focus" on Coppolella and Moore as its top targets (SPORTS.YAHOO.com, 10/14).
